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manc-mag will be along shortly with a set-square, compass and measuring tape to show you both where you've gone wrong.

"Total Bollocks" seal of approval.

http://www.cosmoetica.com/TOP1-DES1.htm He's taken apart Yeats' Into The Twilight on this page, here's how he scores the original: and his rewrite:

What a presumptuous cunt: http://www.cosmoetica.com/TOP9-DES8.htm

I struggling to think of a scenario where that excuse doesn't work, I'm having that.

It's not on the 360? Rockstar may just have lost themselves a fan.

That sounds grand. I think they're probably worried about the whole aspect of more impressionable kids playing in a setting they're so familiar with. Even though it's 18s they know these kids will play it, and that's the same excuse they use as to why GTA et al are ok, because kids shouldn't be playing them. Anyway, I'd be more worried about the teachers playing in such a familiar setting. Proper mentalists tbh.

Some of us read poetry outside of school. A lot of Yeats relies on a background knowledge of classical allusions, Irish folktale, and his own life. This makes it more difficult than, say, Larkin. I was waiting for that, I assumed he wasn't on the curriculum over there. At University briefly. He's not bad, it's just the kind of thing that needs teaching, especially for the younger generations. I hated him when I was younger, but have grown to appreciate him more with time, guess that shows how cynical I've become. He fantasises about a time that never really existed, but of course he probably realised that and mourned it none the less. That's why I quoted that line, I think it's relevant to so much more than that time or that place, certainly to me. Cheers for those recommendations, Alex, yet more for the list. Though I've a feeling this current one's going to take a while.

Can you explain exactly what the game is about, because I think I can see where Dixons are coming from, but I think I read somewhere ages ago that the game's been misrepresented. Then there's the issue that if you're selling the likes of Saint's Row and GTA, the stance doesn't make a huge amount of sense.

So you're pro-Empire, are you, Noelie? "I did not leave because I prefer California to the UK; I left to live in a place that had a lot more sunshine." If you move because you prefer the weather haven't you moved to a place you prefer, on balance? I did the same thing, and I think I prefer where I live now, again on balance.

Some of us read poetry outside of school. A lot of Yeats relies on a background knowledge of classical allusions, Irish folktale, and his own life. This makes it more difficult than, say, Larkin. I was waiting for that, I assumed he wasn't on the curriculum over there.

I've only read Pulp, which I really enjoyed, never any of his poetry. I think Giamatti quotes a line or two from one of his poems in Sideways and I liked that.

I've read over those a couple of times, and I just don't get what's good about them? I think I prefer the first one, but that might just be because it's shorter...

Why is Yeats difficult? He's standard fare from a young age in Ireland. Maybe while your teachers were dodging the subject of what he was actually often writing about, things ceased to make sense.

All Nigerians are funny, we talk funny and we play practical jokes. Or is that smurfs?

See, they can't even wait for a punchline over there anymore, so they are spread at intervals throughout the joke and in CAPS for those of us not quite sprightly enough to catch them. Yet to meet a funny Nigerian. Apart from Godfrey anyways. OMG RACIST!

Have you read The Cat Inside by William Burroughs? Now there's a legend, I assume everyone knows the story about him shooting his wife? I shouldn't laugh but...

See, they can't even wait for a punchline over there anymore, so they are spread at intervals throughout the joke and in CAPS for those of us not quite sprightly enough to catch them.

You do know Zathras is from the US, right?

Suddenly, everything becomes clear.

"Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, it's with O'Leary in the grave" Miserable bollocks was right. I've never been able to get into poetry, but I do like Eliot.

Couldn't let it go though, I know the feeling, did you know the French call that esprit d'escalier.

Fucking hell lad, have a word with yourself! There's no other way to describe what he does, you'd believe the words even less if you saw what I looked like.

That's fair enough, not really him doing your head in then, more other people. I might put Slaughterhouse 5 on the list, but I'm not sure I'd say genius either, that term should really be reserved for Leonardo DaVinci and maybe Wayne Rooney.

I'm far from finished, but the first page pissed on, shat on, and then set fire to Dan Brown. It's no easy read, but I'm loving it, it's got so much depth that I find myself searching for all sorts, Maths, Science, History, Philosophy on t'internet while I'm reading. Bit like Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance like that. Patrokles, this is the first I've read of Vonnegut's, but why didn't you like him? It's a minor point, but I don't think I've ever read anything that compares to him when it comes to his usage of onomotapeia. Reminded me a little bit of Aldous Huxley's use of imagery.